11. — What accounts for the fact that the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs has a better composition of employees? And what conditions must be created in order to obtain from the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection a similarly renewed apparatus?

12. — The Workers' and Peasants' Inspection should begin now the organization of work on a new basis in accordance with the experience of five years.

13. — New organization of work on the part of the Secretariat of the Central Committee (organization of training of new members of the Central Committee in all details of administration).

14. — Greater regularity in the meetings of the Politburo already follows from the course of work.

15. — An important advantage from increasing the number of Central Committee members — the reduction of the personal, accidental element in its decisions, etc.

Dictated in January, no later than the 9th, 1923.

First printed in 1959
in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the record of the secretary (typewritten copy)
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V. I. LENIN